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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In almost 40 years there has never been any program proven to close the achievement gap. Just like poverty has never been alleviated. There was article in the post a few months ago about the billions wasted to close the gap over decades and none made a difference at all.  Stop vilifying high achieving students.   Closing the gap must include training low income parents on how to support their kids from birth. Middles school is too late.[/quote]

[b]Fewer than 10% of Latin’s MS students are at risk[/b]. But momentarily setting those students to the side, why are nearly 40% of black students at Latin (who are 40% of the enrollment) scoring 1s and 2s in PARCC Math?

The racial AND economic disparities continues into Latin’s  high school.

We all know being homeless or in foster care or extremely poor makes achieving in school an uphill battle. But why are the kids of color without those issues struggling at Latin when their white peers aren’t?

As for being impossible or too late, both BASIS and DCI are doing better with at-risk kids although there are still gaps. [/quote]

This is definitely an interesting question.  But we do need to know more about the backgrounds of the 40% scoring 1s and 2s.  Maybe they are not at risk, but the majority come from lower class/blue collar homes where the parents (without college educations) don't read/or have books in the home and don't push/know how to push education?[/quote]

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